#747 Substitution - Path to Geany.exe (Portable Mojo)

[Mike]

It would be incredibly useful if in the "Substitutions in commands and working directories", we had an extra character sequence that would fill in the current full path to Geany.exe.

This would save me a ton of work when working on different machines off of my portable use flash drive, as I could then use this to construct a relative path to my JDK install on the same thumb drive.

This would be in addition to the same %, %e, %f, %p stuff.

[Lex Trotman]

On 2 April 2015 at 10:22, Mike mikey021947@users.sf.net wrote:

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[feature-requests:#747] Substitution - Path to Geany.exe (Portable Mojo)

Status: open
Group: v1.25
Created: Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:22 PM UTC by Mike
Last Updated: Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:22 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

It would be incredibly useful if in the "Substitutions in commands and
working directories", we had an extra character sequence that would fill in
the current full path to Geany.exe.

This would save me a ton of work when working on different machines off of
my portable use flash drive, as I could then use this to construct a
relative path to my JDK install on the same thumb drive.

This would be in addition to the same %, %e, %f, %p stuff.

Unfortunately I'm not sure we have a way of finding the path to our
executable easily?

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[Mike]

Hey guys,

I'm not 100% sure if this will be helpful, but I did a search. I'm assuming you guys are running C++, and the target install is always Windows?

The following stack overflow thread references getting the path to an EXE: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1528298/get-path-of-executable

In it they mention a function for windows: GetModuleFileName(), which I believe I may have used back in my C++ days: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683197(v=vs.85).aspx

You'd pass NULL for the handle, which would give you the exe path to the current running process. Linux solution is mentioned in the stack overflow link, too.

Does this help?

[Lex Trotman]

On 5 April 2015 at 22:23, Mike mikey021947@users.sf.net wrote:

Hey guys,

I'm not 100% sure if this will be helpful, but I did a search. I'm assuming
you guys are running C++ and Windows?

Geany is C and has to support Windows and Linux and experimentally OSX
if its different to Linux.

The following stack overflow thread references getting the path to an EXE:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1528298/get-path-of-executable

In it they mention a function for windows: GetModuleFileName(), which I
believe I may have used back in my C++ days:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683197(v=vs.85).aspx

You'd pass NULL for the handle, which would give you the exe path to the
current running process. Linux solution is mentioned in the stack overflow
link, too.

Does this help?

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[feature-requests:#747] Substitution - Path to Geany.exe (Portable Mojo)

Status: open
Group: v1.25
Created: Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:22 PM UTC by Mike
Last Updated: Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:22 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

It would be incredibly useful if in the "Substitutions in commands and
working directories", we had an extra character sequence that would fill in
the current full path to Geany.exe.

This would save me a ton of work when working on different machines off of
my portable use flash drive, as I could then use this to construct a
relative path to my JDK install on the same thumb drive.

This would be in addition to the same %, %e, %f, %p stuff.

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